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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. View quote | Adams, John quotes

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. View quote | Al-Bistami, Bayazid quotes

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. View quote | Andretti, Mario quotes

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. View quote | Augustine, St. quotes

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. View quote | Barnum, P.T. quotes

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. View quote | Bristol, Claude M. quotes

If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream. View quote | Brown, Les quotes

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. View quote | Butterworth, Eric quotes

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated. View quote | Collier, Robert quotes

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat View quote | Collier, Robert quotes

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. View quote | Collier, Robert quotes

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. View quote | Collier, Robert quotes

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. View quote | Graham, Sheila quotes

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going. View quote | Guthrie, Janet quotes

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. View quote | Hill, Napoleon quotes

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. View quote | Hill, Napoleon quotes

Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure. View quote | Hill, Napoleon quotes

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example. View quote | Huxley, Aldous quotes

Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires. View quote | Manton quotes

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. View quote | Maurois, Andre quotes

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that. View quote | Moss, Stirling quotes

The key that unlocks energy is Desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. View quote | Nightingale, Earl quotes

There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without. View quote | Peck, William M. quotes

You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life -- your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night... View quote | Popplestone, Charles E. quotes

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself. View quote | Shoemaker, Willie quotes

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. View quote | Sivananda, Sri Swami quotes

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. View quote | Smiles, Samuel quotes

No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement. View quote | Unknown, Source quotes

As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires. View quote | Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka quotes

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. View quote | Youngblood, Jack quotes

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof. View quote | Zenji, Dogen quotes